Winter Solstice Festival Winter Solstice is a very important solar term and a traditional festival in Chinese lunar calendar. The winter solstice is commonly known as "winter festival", "long solstice festival" and "sub-year-old". The northern region has the custom of slaughtering sheep in the winter solstice, eating jiaozi and wonton, while the southern region has the habit of eating rice balls and long noodles in the winter solstice on this day. There is also the custom of offering sacrifices to heaven and ancestors on the winter solstice in various regions.
On the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, the Double Ninth Festival is called "Double Ninth Festival". And because in ancient China, six was the number of yin and nine was the number of yang, so the double ninth was called "Chongyang". The origin of the Double Ninth Festival can be traced back to the early Han Dynasty. It is said that in the palace, on September 9th, every year, cornus is accompanied, fed with bait and drunk with chrysanthemum wine, in order to live longer. The main activities are climbing mountains, enjoying chrysanthemums, drinking, etc., which are quite popular with the elderly, so it is also called "Old People's Day".
The Mid-Autumn Festival is also called Moon Festival, Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, August Festival, August Festival, Moon Chasing Festival, Moon Playing Festival, Moon Worship Festival, Daughter's Day or Reunion Festival. On this day, the whole family is reunited to enjoy the moon and eat moon cakes. Originally, there are "burning incense", "walking on the moon", "putting lanterns on trees", "lighting tower lanterns" and "dancing. This festival is paid more attention by overseas travelers, and many ethnic minorities have also celebrated it.
The Seven Clever Days used to be on the seventh day of July among the people, also known as the Begging Clever Days. Legend has it that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet at the Magpie Bridge. In general, the people set up a altar that night, and women begged for cleverness in order to give good women workers. There are also young men and women who love each other, which is also called China's love plot.
The Dragon Boat Festival, also called Duanyang Festival, is said to be in memory of Qu Yuan. There are mainly activities such as eating zongzi and racing dragon boats. In some places, such as Qinghai, there are customs such as tying ropes (twisted with five-color silk threads, tied to hands, feet and wrists), inserting willows and wearing sachets to repel insects and pray for good luck and peace.
Tomb-Sweeping Day, Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional festival in China, and it is also the most important festival for offering sacrifices to ancestors and sweeping graves. Grave-sweeping, commonly known as going to the grave, is an activity to sacrifice the dead. Most Han people and some ethnic minorities visit graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day. According to the old custom, when sweeping graves, people should bring food, wine, fruit, paper money and other items to the cemetery, offer food to their relatives' graves, then incinerate the paper money, cultivate new soil for the graves, fold a few green branches and insert them in the graves, then kowtow and worship, and finally eat food and drink and go home.
February 2, commonly known as "Dragon Head Up", is also called Qinglong Festival, which marks the beginning of agricultural production in a year. Activities include scattering ash to attract dragons, smoking insects, picking vegetables, and avoiding sewing (in case of "damaging longan"). The record of this custom dates back to the Tang Dynasty. As for eating and drinking on February 2 nd, instead of eating and drinking greasy food during the Spring Festival, we should be vegetarian.
Lantern Festival, the 15th day of the first lunar month, is a traditional festival in China. The first month is January, the ancients called the night "Xiao", and the fifteenth day is the first full moon night in a year, so the fifteenth day of the first month is called the Lantern Festival, also known as the "Shangyuan Festival". According to the folk tradition in China, on the festival night in spring returns, the moon is high in the sky, and there are thousands of lanterns on the ground. People watch lanterns, have solve riddles on the lanterns and have Yuanxiao, and have a happy family reunion.
New Year's Eve is 30 years old, that is, "New Year's Eve". This day is a day for people to eat, drink, play and have fun. Northerners make jiaozi, while southerners make rice cakes. Dumplings are shaped like "Yuanbao" and rice cakes sound like "Niangao", which are good signs of good luck. On New Year's Eve, the whole family eats a "reunion dinner" together, which smells like family reunion for the New Year. When having a reunion dinner, the "fish" on the table can't be moved, because this fish represents "abundance" and "surplus every year", symbolizing "wealth and luck" in the coming year. It belongs to a decoration and can't be touched. According to legend, in ancient times, our ancestors were threatened by the fiercest beast called Nian. People have struggled with Nian for many years, and it has been found that Nian is afraid of three things, red color, fire and noise. So on a winter night, people hung red mahogany boards on their doors, lit a fire at the door, stayed up all night, knocked and knocked, and scared Nian back to the mountains and never dared to come out again. As the night passed, people congratulated each other and celebrated the victory by decorating, drinking and feasting. In order to commemorate this victory, every family will stick red paper couplets on their doors, light lanterns, beat gongs and drums and set off firecrackers and fireworks at this time in winter. At night, vigil all night; The next day, I congratulated each other early in the morning. This has been handed down from generation to generation, and it has become a "New Year".